Bad Poetry

"A book for anyone who's ever tried to write poetry -- and failed miserably. Steve Almond's new DIY project is a compendium of truly wretched verse, accompanied by humorous essays on the nature of his own pretention and idiocy. Poet Kim Addonizio warns: "Be scared -- very scared -- of this little book." D.A. Powell is more direct in his assessment of Almond's work: "Painful failures."